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This is a list of Imperial College London people , including notable students and staff from the various historical institutions which are now part of Imperial College.
Sciences and engineering
Thomas Henry Huxley Asad Abidi (electrical engineer) - former dean of Lahore University of Management Sciences , member of the National Academy of Engineering Igor Aleksander (engineering)Sir Roy Anderson (epidemiology - mathematically modelled the spread of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and AIDS.)
Nicolas Ambraseys (civil engineer) - Founder of Engineering Seismology at Imperial College LondonDame Mary Archer (British scientist specialising in solar power conversion)
John Argyris (civil and aeronautical engineer, one of the founders of the Finite Element Method )Baron Ashby (botanist)Eric Ash (engineer)Ayodele Awojobi (first African awarded the D.Sc degree in mechanical engineering; main field: vibration)David Balding (mathematical statistician)Cecil Balmond (civil engineer)Ian Bayley (computer scientist)Sir Henry De la Beche , founder of the British Geological Survey
Baron Richard Beeching (engineer)
Anne Beloff-Chain (professor of biochemistry)William Thomas Blanford (geologist)Kenneth Binmore (economist)Moses Blackman (crystallographer)Vincent Blondel (mathematician)Alan Blumlein (electronic engineer)Sir Charles Vernon Boys (scientist)
Donal Bradley (researcher in plastic electronics )Tony Brooker (mathematician and computer scientist)Keith Browning (atmospheric scientist)John Burland (civil engineer) - the person who stabilised the Tower of Pisa Kevin Buzzard (mathematician, number theory)Nessa Carey , virologist and author)Colin Cherry (cognitive scientist - expert in cocktail party problem)Keith Clark (computer scientist)Piers Corbyn (meteorologist)Wilfred Corrigan (American engineer and entrepreneur, founder of LSI Logic Corp.)Donald Watts Davies (computer scientist)George Mercer Dawson (surveyor)William Reginald Dean (applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist)Herbert Dingle (English astronomer, best known for his claimed disproof of the theory of special relativity)Patrick Dixon (futurist , physician)Simon Donaldson (Fields Medallist )Keith Duckworth (mechanical engineer)Abbas Edalat (computer scientist)James H. Ellis (engineer, conceived public-key cryptography )Sir Harold Ellis (surgeon)
Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor (geologist, first president of Indian National Science Academy )
Amanda Fisher (biologist)Sir Hugh Ford (engineer)
Alfred Fowler (astronomer)Marc Garneau (first Canadian in space, Chancellor of Carleton University , Liberal Member of Parliament)Erol Gelenbe (computer scientist - G-networks and the random neural network )Stephen Glaister (civil engineering)Peter Gregson (research engineer, Vice-Chancellor of the Queen's University of Belfast )Nicholas Harrison (Professor of Computational Materials Science)Michael Hassell (population ecology)Dame Julia Higgins (engineer)
E. W. Hobson (mathematician)Sir Thomas Henry Holland (geologist)
Arthur Holmes (geologist)Sir Stanley Hooker (mechanical engineer)
Sir Brian Hoskins (dynamical meteorologist)
T. H. Huxley (biologist and author)Frank Irving (aeronautical engineer)C.L.V. Jayathilake (engineer)Nick Jennings (computer scientist)Viktor Jensen (engineer)John Wesley Judd (geologist)Alexander King Eric Laithwaite (engineer)Frederick William Lanchester (aeronautic engineer)David Latchman (geneticist)Sir James Lighthill (mathematician)
Meir Manny Lehman (software engineering)Armand Marie Leroi (biologist)Tshilidzi Marwala (engineer)Sir Basil John Mason (meteorologist)
Johnjoe McFadden (molecular geneticist and writer)Sanjoy K. Mitter (electrical engineer)C. Lloyd Morgan (psychologist)John Nelder (statistician)Naomi Oreskes (historian of science)Bill Parry (mathematician)William Henry Perkin, Jr. (son of Sir William Henry Perkin , studied at the Royal College of Science )Helen Porter (botanist)Rodney Robert Porter (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)David E. Potter (founder and Chairman of Psion , Chairman of Symbian )John G. Ramsay (structural geologist)Alec Reeves (engineer, invented pulse code modulation )Peter Rice (civil engineer)Sylvia Richardson (statistician)Donald Van Norman Roberts (civil engineer)Klaus Roth (Fields medallist)Roger W.H. Sargent (chemical engineer)Martin Schroder (chemist)Murray Shahahan (computer scientist)Luis Simoes da Silva (civil engineer)Alec Skempton (founding father of soil mechanics )Adrian Smith (mathematician)Brian Spalding (computational fluid dynamics)Michael Stumpf (systems biologist)L H C Tippett (statistician)Nicholas Tombazis (Mclaren F1 and Scuderia Ferrari chief aerodynamicist)Stuart Turnbull (financial mathematician)Elsayed Elsayed Wagih (Egyptian virologist and biotechnologist)Kevin Warwick (engineer)Alfred North Whitehead (mathematician)Andrew J. Whittle (head of Civil Engineering at MIT)Christopher R. Wronski (electrical engineer)Shao Xianghua (metallurgical engineer)Frank Yates (statistician)Olgierd Zienkiewicz (civil engineer - Finite Element Method )
Chemistry
Geoffrey Wilkinson , Nobel laureate chemist
Medicine
Sir Alexander Fleming David Livingstone Sir Ernst Chain (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
Dame Sally Davis (Chief Medical Officer)
Lord Ara Darzi (Baron Darzi of Denham, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Leading Surgeon)
Carl Djerassi (chemist; first oral contraceptive pill progestin norethisterone )Sir Joseph Fayrer (physician noted for his writings on medicine in India)
Marc Feldmann (expert on rheumatology)Sir Alexander Fleming (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
Sir Malcolm Green (inorganic chemist)
John Henry (toxicologist) (clinical toxicologist who did crucial work on poisoning and drug overdose)Sir Frederick Hopkins (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
Dame Rosalind Hurley (medical microbiologist, researcher, and ethicist)
Sir Andrew Huxley (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
Sir Bruce Keogh (medical director of the National Health Service )
David Livingstone (congregationalist pioneer medical missionary in South Africa–Charing Cross Hospital)Christine Moffatt (nurse in leg ulcer care)Norman Morris (Obstetrician and healthcare reformer)Albert Neuberger (chemical pathologist)William Kitchen Parker (physician and zoologist)Julia Polak (tissue engineer)Sir Rodney Robert Porter (Nobel Laureate, Physiology and Medicine)
Ann Redgrave (orthopaedic surgery)Bernard Spilsbury (pathologist and one of the pioneers of modern forensic medicine)Joseph Toynbee (otologist)Augustus Desiré Waller (the invention of the electrocardiogram (ECG))Baron Robert Winston (fertility expert, politician, scientist and television presenter)
Almroth Wright (advanced vaccination through the use of autogenous vaccines)Sir Magdi Yacoub (expert on live lobe lung transplant)
Physics
Patrick Blackett , Nobel laureate in physicsAbdus Salam , Nobel laureate in physicsLord Penney Per Bak (theoretical physicist, self-organized criticality )Anthony R. Barringer (geophysicist and inventor)Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett (Nobel laureate, physics)David Blow (biophysicist)Fernando Brandao (physicist)Andrew Crumey (physicist)Sir John Ambrose Fleming (physicist)
Fay Dowker (physicist)Michael Duff (string theorist)Piers Forster (climatologist)Dennis Gabor (Nobel laureate, physics)James R. Graham (astrophysicist)Joanna Haigh , professor of atmospheric physicsDavid Hand (physicist)Christopher Isham (physicist)Narinder Singh Kapany (physicist - optical fibres )Nicholas Kemmer (physicist)Tom W. B. Kibble (physicist)Julia King (Chief Executive of the Institute of Physics )Peter Knight (physicist, Quantum Optics)K. Kunaratnam (physicist)Norman Lockyer (discoverer of helium and founder of Nature Leonard Mandel (physicist, founder of quantum optics )Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (physicist, member of the House of Lords )Kirpal Nandra (astrophysist)Jenny Nelson (Professor of Physics)John Pendry (physicist)William George Penney (physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project )Nicholas J. Phillips (physicist)Michael Rowan-Robinson (astronomer)Abdus Salam (Nobel laureate, physics)Roy Sambles (President of the Institute of Physics )Le Jeu Sham (physicist)David Southwood (former President of the Royal Astronomical Society )R. A. Stradling (physicist)Ray Streater (physicist)Sir G. P. Thomson (Nobel laureate, physics)
Vlatko Vedral (physicist)Sir Gilbert Walker (physicist)
Wolfgang Rindler (physicist and textbook author who introduced term 'Event Horizon')
Politics
Rajiv Gandhi , Former Prime Minister of IndiaJulius Vogel , Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
Business
Otto Beit
Others
Brian May H.G. Wells Roger Bannister
See also
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